PATSY | Small floral button front blouse

Small flowers, not the big ones. There is a difference and nobody making these seems to know it.

Floral blouses in this age bracket come in two sizes of flower, and the large one is a problem. Big blooms across the chest add width exactly where you would not choose to add it, and they date the blouse to whichever summer it was made. You learn this the expensive way, usually twice. Patsy is printed small.

The floral is delicate and closely spaced, so it reads as a soft overall pattern rather than as individual flowers sitting on you. The blouse itself is loose and light, which lets the print stay flat instead of curving around anything, and the button placket down the front gives the eye a straight vertical line to follow through the middle of it.

Why women our age keep coming back to it

• The flowers are small. A fine, closely spaced print reads as texture rather than as separate blooms, which is why it does not add width across the front.
• The placket runs a line down the middle. The row of buttons gives a vertical to follow, which is the simplest counterweight there is to an all over print.
• Light and loose. It moves freely and does not sit against the body, so it is comfortable in warm weather and the print stays flat.
• Six grounds for the same print. Pink, blue, purple, light green, white and dark blue, so you can have the flowers on a pale background or a deeper one.

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The discount is applied automatically at checkout.

How it fits

Patsy is a loose fit and runs true to size, in S through 3XL. If you are between two sizes, take the larger one, because a button front under tension gaps, and the whole benefit of the small print depends on the fabric lying flat. The size chart has the flat measurements in inches.

30 days to change your mind

Send it back within 30 days for a full refund. There is no restocking fee and no questions about why.

A few recent reviews

The dark blue one with white jeans is my entire spring. I am not sorry.
Josie H., Sarasota

Finally a floral that does not make my chest look like a sofa.
Lavina G., Naples

Light enough for Florida in June, which is the only test that matters here.
Mattie R., 66